Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Hasse gives Jim Fleming several examples of patriotic music and talks about the various ways they’ve been used. They explore some suggested alternatives to the national anthem.
Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
Before and since Keith Powell's breakthrough role on as Toofer on the sitcom "30 Rock," he has been forced to confront Hollywood's problem with black male voices. In this interview, he tells us how he works within an industry that desperately needs more diverse voices but doesn't truly want them.
Richard Fortey tells Anne Strainchamps why he’s been a life-long fan of trilobites, ancient water creatures who swarmed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.
Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.”
Kurt Westergaard is the Danish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban in a Danish newspaper in 2005.
Charles Monroe-Kane prepared a profile of singer/songwriter Neko Case, a country singer who's haunted by the American Dream.
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